Hankou’s modern architectural form transferred to magnificent form focusing on high-bench buildings from traditional Chinese buildings due to “water”, whose architecture is grand and forceful, and aesthetic connotation and emotional power are strong.
Hankou marked the start of its quarter-century-long experiment with this dis-tinctive form of colonialism. Hankou was a treaty port, one of the cities in which the Qing empire, under duress, allowed foreign trade and residence. The first treaty ports were created after Britain defeated the Qing in the First Opium War ( – ) and
This design centers around the memories of old Hankou, with local residents as the core, to create a unique urban living room for Sanyang, realizing the scene reconstruction of the Sanyang area and generating new social memories.
Under the guidance of sociolinguistics theory——place semiotics, this paper aims to investigate the public signs of Hankou River Beach from three subsystems——code preference, inscription and emplacement respectively. Meanwhile, symbolic function and informational function will be analyzed in depth with cultural connotations.
2023年10月18日 · Abstract: To study the historical evolution and overview of modern financial architecture in Hankou, and to analyze its aesthetic characteristics and aesthetic significance. There are three main styles of modern financial architecture in Hankou: classical revival, eclecticism and modernism.
Twentieth-century Wuhan’s economic center was the bustling port of Hankou, whose pursuit of Western-style commercial and cultural moder-nity rose to a new level after it became a railroad terminus early in the century.
Hankou was once the host city of a large group of native banks or Qianzhuang in China. This case study examines the local archives to explore their urban origins, business cus-toms and internal...
One winter evening in 1849 the Yangzi River caught fire. The conflagration broke out on a sampan moored between Hankou, Wuchang and Hanyang, the three sister cities known today as Wuhan.3 Here, the harbours were so crowded that observers often described how a ‘forest of masts’ seemed to stretch out to the horizon.4 This forest was now ablaze.
Based on the studies of the former British Concession of Hankou, the article explores the evolving pattern of historical urban texture from prototype to type, with the rationale of architectural...
The main research focuses on how the spatial form of old Hankou buildings formed, developed, and changed throughout history. It explores how different historical backgrounds contributed to the creation and construction of controversial places like concessions.